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In the meantime, why not brush up on our wish list for what is likely to be a major OS upgrade, as well as a description of how copy and paste—one of the most requested features—may work.

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Originally posted by JonathanThompson:doormat: have you never heard of opening > 1 window onto Ars (or any other site) at the same time? (This is where tabs as the only way to view more than one page at a time falls far short!)

Yeah, I was looking for something a bit more elegant - a small Ars banner at the top, some rotating ad, and then the CiL applet. Not necessarily a new full Ars window.

I am looking forward to Ars Technica's coverage of this event (I am sure it will be excellent as always)!

I know it is a minor feature but I hope that the geo-tagging feature is activated. I understand it will work in this way– iPhoto will import my location data (recorded on the iPhone) and match the photo's timestamps (from my last import) to my GPS data.

Hopefully in addition to copy/cut/paste we will get:*Reorganized Springboard (with folders/categories)*Better Bluetooth Support (AD2P?)*Tethering (USB/WiFi/Bluetooth?)*Snow Leopard improvements like lower memory/executable footprint, Grand Central, and Quicktime X.*Whole device encryption for enterprise users.*Unified Inbox with Spam filtering*Spotlight search across all applications.*Location based settings (Example: when you arrive at the office the iPhone would turn off bluetooth, disable 3G, enable WiFi, set volume to 50% with a ring tone that is not 'Paper Planes' haha)*Background Apps- Allow designated Apps to run in the background with strict rules. (Ex: hold down home button to switch' to SpringBoard while not quitting the App that was running, single press would still quit)*Document editing / Markup capabilities.*Back to Mac / Home- Access documents, stream iTunes/iPhoto library from home.*SDK access to Bluetooth and the dock connector.

What features do I not care about?*MMS - Seriously dated, email is better. I never use it. Maybe AT&T can convert incoming MMSs to emails and provide a email to MMS service)*Navigation - I would rather have navigation integrated into my car's console. Google Maps really works good enough for quick reference.*Flash - It would slow web browsing down and eat battery for little gain.

Originally posted by JonathanThompson:doormat: have you never heard of opening > 1 window onto Ars (or any other site) at the same time? (This is where tabs as the only way to view more than one page at a time falls far short!)

Yeah, I was looking for something a bit more elegant - a small Ars banner at the top, some rotating ad, and then the CiL applet. Not necessarily a new full Ars window.

If your browser can open frames in new windows, the applet can be opened in a new window via its frame.

The push thing is what I want the most, but a new SpringBoard is a must as well. I have five pages of apps, and opening/doing anything more than slightly trivial takes 10 seconds. Not a travesty I know, but a bummer for sure.

CoverItLive was pretty cool. I liked the random polls (yes, that was a lot of demos), but it _barely_ worked in mobile Safari. It wouldn't let me zoom in or out, which was a problem because it rendered just wider than the screen in either orientation.